Re: Some git conversion issues

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > I have reproduced this by modifying just the CVS tag:
> >
> > ? ? ? ?$PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/catalog/README,v 1.15 2010/07/20
> > ? ? ? ?18:38:53 momjian Exp $
> 
> To clarify with what Bruce said on IM to me, the situation is when the
> workflow is to manually copy a file from one repo to another before
> committing (a working one vs the committer one for example), it may
> not be up to date on the version id. Personally this never happens
> because I move files by making "cvs diff" in one and applying in the
> other, not copying the files.
> 
> For one thing, this showed up in a lot of .po files for 8.1.0RC1.
> Peter, can you comment on if this coincides with the tools you use to
> do those things?
> 
> 
> > so it is possible, and can be ignored.
> 
> Yeah, but do we want to? It means a git checkout of the branch tip
> will be slightly different - in keywords only - from the previous
> checkout in cvs.
> 

Well, we are planning to remove these tags in git anyway, and I don't
think anyone cares about those tags not being consistent.

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